Mario received the master of science in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino and the master in Interaction Design from the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea. He has been working for the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella since 2003. From July 2013 to May 2017 he’s been head of the Creativity and Design Innovation Research Unit. Its goal is to boost ISMB's efforts into the creativity, interaction design and user experience fields. A special focus is given to data visualization and interaction, natural user interfaces and Web technologies. In June 2017 Mario joins the Mobile Solutions Research Area.

As a passionate designer and researcher, he’s committed to defining and implementing ICT strategies for product, service and process innovation. His ten main keywords are: User Experience (UX), Interaction Design (IxD), service design, information architecture, knowledge management, multimedia, visualization, Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, digital libraries, and virtual museums. He was responsible for knowledge sharing, integration and dissemination activities in national and European projects (FIRB PRIMO, NEWCOM, NEWCOM++), and worked in several innovation and applied research projects.

Previously he worked for the Center for Informatics and Telematics Services (CeSIT)- of the Politecnico di Torino (now called Information Technology Area), contributing to the creation of the Poliweb group, and designing and developing the main portal and many institutional Websites. He worked for BasicNet/Robe di Kappa, developing several projects for the corporate interactive Web channel: from the multimedia catalog with its own web portal to the web streaming of live events, to marketing campaigns. He worked also as a freelance – again in the Web and multimedia domain – for clients like CSELT (now Telecom Italia), Consortium for Research and Continuing Education (CoREP), Torino Internazionale, and others. He is an ACM-SIGCHI member and peer-reviewer for CHI, IUI and other ACM conferences.